Moreno's Contribution to Social Psychology
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AlthoughJ. L. Moreno was a prolific writer who contributed at least 308 books and articles to the literature on social psychology and group therapy, no previously published list of his work indicates the connections between many of his publications. This article provides such a list, together with some comments on Moreno's contribution to social psychology. In addition to his contribution to theory and research in social psychology, primarily in introducing sociometry as a method of measuring and depicting interpersonal choice behavior, Moreno also made major contributions to group therapy through the development of psychodrama as a group therapeutic method and through the promotion of organizations for group therapists. Although all of his published work is cited in the bibliography that follows, the work that had an impact on social psychology will be the focus of the present article, leaving an assessment of his contribution to group therapy for someone who is a specialist in that field.
References
Works by J. L. Moreno are listed in the complete bibliography, which follows on pages 95-128.
Bischof, L. J. (1964). Interpreting personality theories (2nd ed.). New York: Harper International Edition.
Borgatta, E. F. (1968). "Sociometry." in D. L. Sills (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Vol. 15, pp.53-57). New York: Macmillan and Free Press.
Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday.
Hare, A. P. (1976). Handbook of small group research (2nd ed.). New York: Free Press.
Hare, A. P. (1979). Moreno,Jacob L. in D. L. Sills (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Vol. 18, pp.537-541). New York: Macmillan.
Hare, A. P. (1982). Creativity in small groups. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Hare, A. P. (1985). Social interaction as drama. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Sills, D. L. (Ed.). ( 1968). International encyclopedia of the social sciences. New York: Macmillan and Free Press.
Starr, A. (1977). Rehearsal for living: Psychodrama. Chicago: Nelson Hall.
Yablonsky, L. (1976). Psychodrama: Resolving emotional problems through role playing. New York: Basic Books.
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